"the hacker inexplicably returned most of the money to him" - so cybercrime is so easy now that criminals are engaging in "catch and release" just for the fun of it.

Exactly - last Jan while GME was going on I figured out the game was to squeeze the shorts and buy cheap out of the money call options ('lottery tickets') and saw a random tweet about AMC. Hmmm, AMC has a big short interest, has not popped yet so bought 4 near term calls with money I could sacrifice. Next day BOOM - have never seen so little get so big so fast. Largely lucky.

Um I'll have the Brittany Burger please http://bitelabs.org/

That is only about twice the US Federal Debt

I'd prefer Hungry Hippo

Demand for power plant coal is up some - which is easier to control pollution actually .

Believe it or not, the free Mathematica on a Raspberry Pi can calculate p = 2^82589933 - the last line is (without the -1)

  > 6640076912114355308311969487633766457823695074037951210325217902592

Right now it's counting the digits (and may run out of memory yet)

In[2]:= Total[DigitCount[p]]

nope, just got the answer:
Out[2]= 24862048

Thanks - I can use that as one of the primes in my 82 billion bit private key - lets see the NSA crack that!

Payoff for work well done - guess the Apple programmers really dig his Al Gore Rhythm.

we are morally obligated to develop this technology before the bad guys get it and use it against us.

I'm wearing the wrong trousers of reality.

the phrase 'jumped the shark' jumped the shark some time ago.

someone said it's like a Segway for your face - that person also refered to riding a Segway a being a 'Dork on a stick'.

Having said that, I would actually be wearing one if available - while riding a segway, with my pocket protector and a slide rule attached to belt, glasses taped together from the last bully beating.

he wrote, just before passing out on the keyboard.

huh - so thats why i keep seeing ads for cryptographic products and services.